Chapter 512: Chapter 337 "Treasure Rock" (Level 3)! 10 times Spiritual: 5th Level Gathering Treasure Basin! [Seeking monthly pass!]
"That’s right!"
"City Lord Yan, don’t discard those six boxes after distributing the Concentrated Stones. When the Ministry of Revenue sends more Concentrated Stones each month, they will send someone to retrieve them. These boxes made of Yellow Silk Wood are rare and can preserve the stones, as they are hard to keep for long after mining in the Mountain and Sea Realm. Their value is even greater than the stones inside!"
Linghu Gan handed the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ to Yan Chuan and reminded him of the six boxes of Concentrated Stones before leaving.
Then he left.
After Linghu Gan left, Yan Chuan held the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ with fondness.
This is a fourth-rank exotic treasure.
This was a reward for completing the [Opposite Conduct] task during the Cang Mountain Sword Discussion, which Yan Chuan had thought the Emperor Yan might reneg on. Surprisingly, it was generously given to Yan Chuan along with the first batch of Concentrated Stones.
Although the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ cannot be used for attack or defense and doesn’t directly enhance combat power, its value in ’gathering treasure’ is immeasurable.
Gold, silver, and treasures!
Gathers everything!
Truly a treasure!
Yan Chuan held it lovingly.
Beside him.
Tian Jing, seeing this, jokingly said, "To the court, this ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ gathers like a drop in the ocean, more or less dispensable. But for you, it truly is a ’treasure’."
"Third brother—"
Yan Chuan was puzzled, "It can replicate stones, plants, gold, silver, and treasures at will, and you call it ’a drop in the ocean’ and dispensable?"
He didn’t understand.
Tian Jing shook his head, "The Great Minister was just teasing you."
A moment ago, he couldn’t speak directly in front of Linghu Gan, but now Tian Jing explained to Yan Chuan, "The core ability of the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ is actually ’gathering Concentrated Stones’. All other gold, silver, and treasures are ultimately obtained by consuming Concentrated Stones. The ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ has a Mustard Space that can store ten thousand pounds of Concentrated Stones, producing an additional ten pounds daily. In a month, that’s three hundred pounds; in a year, three to four thousand pounds, which, for an individual, is a great sum. But for the court, it really is nothing."
Tian Jing seemed to know the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ well.
After listening, Yan Chuan understood, "The so-called ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ is essentially like a bank. If I deposit ten thousand pounds of Concentrated Stones, I get three hundred pounds of stone interest every month. Everything else, whether stones, plants, gold, silver, or treasures, is essentially purchased with the Concentrated Stones, not conjured out of thin air by the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’. Is that right?"
"Very apt!"
Tian Jing nodded.
That’s just it.
Therefore, with the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ in hand, it’s equivalent to gaining 3,600 additional pounds of Concentrated Stones each year, which isn’t insignificant. Furthermore, using the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ can even produce something from nothing, and some low-level, scarce materials of the first, second, and third ranks can also be obtained by ’gathering treasure’ through the consumption of Concentrated Stones to resolve urgent needs.
But ultimately, the main ability of the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ is still to increase the amount of Concentrated Stones.
"Three hundred pounds a month allows me to enter Heavenly Ladder City three more times."
Useful if you have it.
Useless if you don’t.
Yan Chuan pursed his lips. To be honest, though the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’ is a fourth-rank, it is somewhat cumbersome.
But—
"I have the ’Treasure Rock’, I can take a bold step!"
...
Cang Mountain Sword Discussion lasts forty-nine days, gathering talents of all ages, not only with over a thousand Heavenly Pride contestants but also several dozen Innate onlookers.
During this time, Yan Chuan gives martial arts lectures, "Derivation Skill" surges, creating one Absolute Skill after another, with ’Experience’ and ’Spiritual’ growing crazily.
Before the Sword Discussion, "Derivation Skill" was at third-level!
Mid-Sword Discussion, "Mutual Teaching and Learning" was at third-level!
By the end of the Sword Discussion, ’Experience’ had amassed over a million, long enough for an upgrade.
But Yan Chuan never rushed to upgrade the "Treasure Rock"—
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["Treasure Rock" (Level Two): You can improve item levels through ’Spiritual’, nurture treasures. You can continue to enhance item levels by merging appropriate materials, obtaining new traits, or strengthening existing traits. Current upgradable item quantity: 4.]
(To upgrade to the next level requires consuming 1,000,000 Experience.)
...
Yan Chuan took out the ’Gathering Treasure Basin’, infused a bit of Spiritual to obtain the treasure’s attributes—
[Miracle Item·Gathering Treasure Basin (Level 31): Azure Dragon coils, White Tiger bows, Xuanwu hangs its head, Vermilion Bird dances, the Gathering Treasure Basin, can gather treasures. Stores ten thousand pounds of Concentrated Stones, daily yields an additional ten pounds of stone. (Traits: Size, Gathering Essence, Spray, Mustard Space.)]
...
"Level 31!"
Yan Chuan was delighted.
A Level 31 Miracle Item is the lowest in the fourth-rank exotic treasure category. Others may wish for stronger treasures, but for Yan Chuan, the lower it is within a major rank, the easier it is for him to enhance—
"Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade!"
Yan Chuan eagerly consumed 550,000 Spiritual to raise the Gathering Treasure Basin to level 40 first—
[Miracle Item·Gathering Treasure Basin (Level 40): Azure Dragon coils, White Tiger bows, Xuanwu hangs its head, Vermilion Bird dances, the Gathering Treasure Basin, can gather treasures. Stores ten thousand pounds of Concentrated Stones, daily yields an additional twenty pounds stone. (Traits: Size, Gathering Essence, Spray, Mustard Space.)]
...
"Interest doubled!"
With this leap, Yan Chuan could now reap twenty pounds of Concentrated Stones daily—
Six hundred pounds a month!
Seven thousand two hundred pounds a year!
"Marvelous, marvelous!"
"Marvelous!"
Yan Chuan couldn’t help but laugh.
Emperor Yan granted the treasure, believing the Gathering Treasure Basin would be too cumbersome for the court. Yet neither Emperor Yan, Linghu Gan, nor Tian Jing foresaw that Yan Chuan also has the "Treasure Rock", enabling him to upgrade exotic treasures.
Sure, ten pounds of stone daily was cumbersome.
But what about twenty pounds a day?
Or even more?
[Miracle Item·Gathering Treasure Basin (Level 40): Azure Dragon coils, White Tiger bows, Xuanwu hangs its head, Vermilion Bird dances, the Gathering Treasure Basin, can gather treasures. Stores ten thousand pounds of Concentrated Stones, daily yields an additional twenty pounds of stone. (Traits: Size, Gathering Essence, Spray, Mustard Space.)]